(Closed) Wedding website question

From reading previous posts, it seems like a lot of bees bought a simple domain name and then redirected visitors to content on a site on theknot or another free wedding website. Can anyone explain to me why you would do this instead of hosting the content on your unique website? I’m a little technically challenged…

I used a Wedding Wire website. It was easy, the template was there, and I wasn’t really interested in spending money on a domain for a website people may look at once or twice. I didn’t do any re-directing; I used the wedding wire address and went on my way!

I used theknot.com because it was free and super easy! I didn’t use any redirecting, except for the portion on registries. It linked to our registry. I didn’t want to pay for/ didn’t have the knowledge to create my own from scratch. Theknot.com makes it super easy